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Sreevidhya Chandramouli
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Chandramouli Narayanan
Shubha Chandramouli(Mridangam)
Dr. Ravi Balasubramanian(Ghatam)
Time: Saturday, March 18 2017 @ 7:00 p.m.
Location: The Old Church Concert Hall
1422, SW 11th Avenue, Portland, OR 97201
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Artist Profile
Sreevidhya Chandramouli
& Chandramouli Narayanan
Sreevidhya Chandramouli is a tenth generation descendant of the illustrious Karaikudi veena Tradition of South India. She learnt the art form from her mother, Late Smt. Rajeswari Padmanabhan (grand-daughter of the legendary Karaikudi Subbarama Iyer). Sreevidhya later pursued advanced vocal training with Late Sri. Vairamangalam Lakshminarayanan and Smt.Suguna Varadachari.
Sreevidhya has been teaching music in the Pacific Northwest for more than three decades, preserving the subtle aesthetics and purity of the Karaikudi tradition. She has served as artist-in-residence at The University of Oregon School of Music and as artist-in-residence at the University of Washington's Department of Ethno-musicology.
Sreevidhya has performed widely in Asia, Europe and North America. Some of her prestigious concerts include performances at the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and Library of Congress, Washington DC, Festival of Saitanklange (Festival of Stringed Instruments, Museum für Völkerkunde & House of World Cultures, Germany), Long night of Indian Music for Sender Freies Berlin (Berlin Radio) and KIT Tropentheater, Netherlands.
She has collaborated with Dhrupad Pundit Uday Bhawalkar in North Indian Music, drawing parallels between the two ancient vocal-vina traditions of India. She is also a watercolor artist and a disciple of the legendary musician, musicologist, and painter, Late Sri S. Rajam. Her paintings were exhibited at the Cedar Mill Library, Portland Oregon. She was featured along with her mother in the book "The Singer & the Song: Conversations with women musicians" by C.S. Lakshmi (published in 2000).
Through workshops and interactive presentations, Sreevidhya contributes to the local community by bringing awareness to the culture and music of India at K-12 schools, libraries and other organizations in Oregon. She volunteers offering music as therapy to patients at St. Vincent’s Hospital.
Chandramouli Narayanan is a ninth generation descendent of the Karaikudi tradition. He learned the art of playing vina under his mother, Late Smt. Lakshmi Ammal, (daughter of the legendary Karaikudi Subbarama Iyer) through the Gurukulam system. Along with Sreevidhya, he has been teaching both voice and vina for over two decades in the Pacific Northwest. He is passionate about reviving Carnatic music compositions and sets Tamil poems to tune in the Carnatic idiom. Currently an independent software consultant, he has worked as a software engineer for a variety of industries including Intel.
Sreevidhya Chandramouli and her husband Chandramouli Narayanan are the founding members of the non-profit organization Dhvani (www.dhvani.org), committed to the Education, Preservation and Dissemination of Art forms of India.
For more about their work, please visit http://www.karaikudivoyage.us
Links to some notable concerts
John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Millenium stage, Washington, D.C. (Veena) https://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/multimedia/VideoStories/millennium-stage/sreevidhya-chandramouli
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (Veena) http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=4743
Concert with Uday Bhawalkar (Veena) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76YvIIUX0Mw
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (Veena) http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=4743
Concert with Uday Bhawalkar (Veena) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76YvIIUX0Mw
Shubha Chandramouli
Shubha Chandramouli is a disciple of Sri. Poovalur Srinivasan and is an accomplished artist in the field of Carnatic music. She continues the tradition of mridangam playing in the grand lineage of the legendary Sri. Pazhani Subramania Pillai, Mylatoor Sami Iyer, and P.A. Venkataraman. Shubha has accompanied several renowned musicians such as Sangeetha Kalanidhi R.K. Srikantan, T.V. Gopalakrishnan, Flute T. Vishwa, Chitraveena N. Ravikiran, Flute S. Shashank, and Malladi Brothers. She performs regularly in Chennai during the December music season, and has played at several concerts at the Cleveland Thyagaraja Aradhana.
Shubha is also a Carnatic vocalist. She trained initially under her mother Sunanda Chandramouli, and continued advanced training under Smt. Geetha Ramanathan Bennett and Sri. Delhi P. Sunderrajan. She has given several vocal concerts around the USA and India. An MBA graduate from Boston University, Shubha currently resides in San Francisco and works in the Finance industry.
Dr. Ravi BalasubramanianShubha is also a Carnatic vocalist. She trained initially under her mother Sunanda Chandramouli, and continued advanced training under Smt. Geetha Ramanathan Bennett and Sri. Delhi P. Sunderrajan. She has given several vocal concerts around the USA and India. An MBA graduate from Boston University, Shubha currently resides in San Francisco and works in the Finance industry.
Ravi Balasubramaniam is the most sought-after Ghatam artiste in North America and is known for his energetic and sensitive accompaniment and solos. With over five hundred concerts, Ravi has extensive experience in Carnatic percussion, including performing the Ghatam at top musical institutions such as the Chennai Music Academy and the Cleveland Aradhana for nearly twenty years. He received the title Yuva Kala Bharathi in 2003 from Bharat Kalachar, a music organization in Chennai, for excellence in and dedication to the art of Ghatam. Ravi expanded the envelope of using the Ghatam in music, when he presented special “GhataTarang” concerts with seven Ghatams as the lead melody and percussion instrument for the first time outside India. Ravi has had the rare honor and experience of performing with leading artistes including Sangitha Kalanidhi vocalists, violinists, flautists, and mridangists in India, USA, Canada, Singapore, Malaysia, and Australia.
Ravi received his initial tutelage from Palghat Sri P. K. Sekar and Sangitha Kalanidhi Dr. T. K. Murthy and later pursued advanced training from Sri V. Suresh in Chennai, India. Ravi has given lecture-demonstrations on the Ghatam in Yale University, Wesleyan University, the University of Pittsburgh, and Chatham College in Pennsylvania, and has been featured in several local and national media articles. He is also Guru to several students in USA, guiding them in the vast ocean of Indian percussion theory and performance. He recently published an article in Sruti magazine, India’s leading arts magazine, that was extremely well-received. Ravi received his doctorate in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University and is currently a professor in Oregon State University.
Artists performed with include Sangitha Kalanidhi Dr. M. Balamuralikrishna, Sangitha Kalanidhi Dr. N. Ramani, Sangitha Kalanidhi Sri T. K. Govinda Rao, Sangitha Kalanidhi Nedunuri Sri Krishnamurthy, Sangitha Kalanidhi Sri R. K. Srikantan, Sangitha Kalanidhi Smt. Vedavalli, Sangitha Kalanidhi Sri T.N. Krishnan, Sangitha Kalanidhi Sri. M. Chandrasekharan, Sangitha Kalanidhi Dr. T. K. Murthy, Sangitha Kalanidhi Vellore Sri Ramabhadran, Srimushnam Sri Raja Rao, Guruvayur Sri Dorai, Smt. Sudha Raghunathan, Smt. Aruna Sairam, Tiruvarur Sri Bhakthavatsalam, Sri T. M. Krishna, Neyveli Sri Santhanagopalan, Sri Ravikiran, Smt. Nithyashree, Smt. Ranjani and Gayatri, Sri Ganesh and Kumaresh, among others.
Ravi received his initial tutelage from Palghat Sri P. K. Sekar and Sangitha Kalanidhi Dr. T. K. Murthy and later pursued advanced training from Sri V. Suresh in Chennai, India. Ravi has given lecture-demonstrations on the Ghatam in Yale University, Wesleyan University, the University of Pittsburgh, and Chatham College in Pennsylvania, and has been featured in several local and national media articles. He is also Guru to several students in USA, guiding them in the vast ocean of Indian percussion theory and performance. He recently published an article in Sruti magazine, India’s leading arts magazine, that was extremely well-received. Ravi received his doctorate in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University and is currently a professor in Oregon State University.
Artists performed with include Sangitha Kalanidhi Dr. M. Balamuralikrishna, Sangitha Kalanidhi Dr. N. Ramani, Sangitha Kalanidhi Sri T. K. Govinda Rao, Sangitha Kalanidhi Nedunuri Sri Krishnamurthy, Sangitha Kalanidhi Sri R. K. Srikantan, Sangitha Kalanidhi Smt. Vedavalli, Sangitha Kalanidhi Sri T.N. Krishnan, Sangitha Kalanidhi Sri. M. Chandrasekharan, Sangitha Kalanidhi Dr. T. K. Murthy, Sangitha Kalanidhi Vellore Sri Ramabhadran, Srimushnam Sri Raja Rao, Guruvayur Sri Dorai, Smt. Sudha Raghunathan, Smt. Aruna Sairam, Tiruvarur Sri Bhakthavatsalam, Sri T. M. Krishna, Neyveli Sri Santhanagopalan, Sri Ravikiran, Smt. Nithyashree, Smt. Ranjani and Gayatri, Sri Ganesh and Kumaresh, among others.
